Spreading the word about this diet.

I'm telling everyone I know about how much better I feel and how my blood tests are better.  This week, we're doing the blood test so that my daughter can find out what she reacts to, if anything.  She has chronic migraines, 15 or more days per month.   We've been taking her to a local clinic that specializes in migraines and they have pretty much reached the limit of things that they can do for her.  That leaves us with this diet as an alternative and if it doesn't work, Botox.   She really doesn't want injections of Botox to her head, so we're going to try the diet first.  Her kit came in the mail last week.  It has everything you need to send the blood work off, the order, the tubes and vials, the already addressed Fedex envelope to put it all in and send it off.   I hope we get some answers for her.

It's going to be interesting preparing foods from 2 different restricted food lists, so I hope there is some overlap in what she can eat and what I can eat.  It's a little daunting, but hopefully we can make it work.  

Finally, an update.

I've been on this diet since January 29 and mostly, I've stuck with it.  Over this past weekend, we had a party and there was a lot of party food and I ate several things I shouldn't have.  I ate milk chocolate and sour cream and onion potato chips, both of which, I guess, contained enough dairy to upset my stomach.  I'm back on the goat's milk this morning.  I obviously don't react well to cow's milk dairy.  Fortunately, goat's milk is good for making gravy and creamy soups and white sauce so I can have some variety in my recipes.  I'm at the adding foods back in to see how I react phase and right now my diet is not as restricted as it was.  I'm going very slowly because I feel good and my symptoms are doing really well.

On my initial symptom survey, my symptoms have gone down, down, down.  I don't think I have a copy of the initial, just after 2 weeks, when my symptom score was 55.  Then a few weeks later, 38 and then a couple of months later, 20.   Objectively, I'm feeling much better and I am subjectively as well.  At the rheumatologist, in March, my C-reactive protein (which is an inflammation marker) was 4.8.  I asked what it had been the last time and was told that it was 7.  This is a clear indicator that I am on the right track here with this diet.  (Read about C-reactive protein and its links to heart disease and Alzheimer's disease here.)